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Tom Stoppard Writes for the Theatre of the Absurd

 

He understands how everything is tied together and cannot change. Choice can be made to enhance this play but if Stoppard messes or changes per say the events then it would ruin the story of Hamlet. The Cambridge Guide to Stoppard explains this more in a detail that deals with changes. "The pattern of repetition, suggestions that nothing in human history will or can be changed, which is the central to absurdist theatre- (Bull, 138-139) explains how things cannot be changed or will not change. It puts the plays more into a perspective of being down to earth because not many things out of the extraordinary happen. Stoppard shows this in the part of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead where the two men are arguing over the orders or letter actually that is to be given to the English King. One of them ends up reading the letter, which tells of the sentencing of Hamlet's death. With the Theatre of the Absurd, no changes shall happen or occur to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's plans of taking Hamlet to England. If they did, everything would be changed because Shakespeare's play Hamlet has Hamlet explain to Horatio on how he changed the letter and escaped the boat. If Stoppard changed this it would have gone against "nothing in human history will or can be changed- (Bull, 138-139).
             Another part of the play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern that has to do with things not changing is the fact before they read the letter sentencing Hamlet to death. "IN their afterlife in Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern seem to suspect what everyone who has Hamlet knows: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are doomed- (Schlueter 69). It is as if they "for see- their death happening. Just right after entering Hamlet, Rosencrantz feels so uneasy that he states, "I want to go home- (Stoppard 38). This is just right after they have joined the new play and he is already feeling uneasy. Guildenstern helps calm Rosencrantz down but before he does, Rosencrantz states, "I tell you it's all stopping to a death, it's boding to a depth, stepping to a head, it's all heading to a dead stop "- (Stoppard 38).


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